The United States government has provided assurances requested by the High Court in London which could finally pave the way for WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to be extradited from the United Kingdom. Last month, the High Court ruled that, without certain US guarantees, Assange, 52, would be allowed to launch a new appeal against being […]
When Saif Ali fled Iraq last year to escape threats and abuse over his sexual orientation, he always dreamed of someday returning.Amid increasing threats over his sexual orientation, he fled the country.
Thursday’s argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution if they commit a crime. At least five of the Court’s Republicans seemed eager to, at the very least, permit Trump to delay his federal criminal trial for attempting to steal the 2020 election until after this November’s election. And the one GOP appointee who seemed to hedge the most, Chief Justice John...
Dozens of death penalty convictions in Alameda County must be reviewed after prosecutors there were found to have intentionally excluded Black and Jewish jurors during a murder trial in 1995, a federal judge ordered. Handwritten notes from prosecutors in the decades-old case suggests the attorneys were involved in "serious misconduct," but Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price on Monday said additional evidence suggests more death penalty cases may have been tainted by prosecutors trying to...
The teen waived his probable cause hearing Tuesday in Mahoning County Juvenile Court and Judge Theresa Dellick then bound the case over to common pleas court.
House Bill 900 requires books sold in the state be rated for sexual content by the book seller, similar to how Hollywood rates movies.
New York obtains significant win for states' ability to regulate broadband.
Idaho’s law requires doctors to treat pregnant women’s health as disposable – and the loss of their lives as an acceptable riskThe risk of stating plainly what Idaho argued at the US supreme court on Wednesday morning is that it is so sadistic and extreme that people might not believe you. Idaho has one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. Prohibiting all abortions at any stage of gestation, with no exceptions for rape or incest, the Idaho law allows doctors to perform abortions...
Justices to rule whether abortion bans should undo Emtala, the Reagan-era law requiring hospitals to treat emergency patientsOne of the only universal rights to healthcare in the US is to be treated in the emergency room – a place where doctors are required to stabilize patients if their future health or life is in serious jeopardy.That right, guaranteed by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known across the country by healthcare professionals as Emtala, was borne out of what was...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) has signed a law explicitly allowing anti-LGBTQ+ foster and adoptive parents to take in LGBTQ+ youth with no provision to take into account the young […]
TOPEKA (KSNT) - Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is letting a bill banning certain diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in higher education to become state law Friday. Kelly is using her veto power on April 19 to reject several bills while letting two others become law without her signature. She included statements in a press []
Stephanie Langley said ‘I’m glad I did it’ as paramedics tried to save him, court told